Unsent Letters – Day 1

I saw this on a friend’s OD and normally it is something that I’d pass on but have been very introspective lately so decided to give it a try. I cannot guarantee that I’ll get through them all in 30 days but I do intend to get through them.

Unsent Letters Project
The concept is 30 Days, 30 Letters.

Day 1 — Your oldest friend
Day 2 — Your crush / significant other
Day 3 — Your parents
Day 4 — Your sibling (or closest relative)
Day 5 — Your dreams
Day 6 — A stranger
Day 7 — Your Ex-boyfriend/Ex-girlfriend
Day 8 — Your favorite internet friend
Day 9 — Someone you wish you could meet
Day 10 — Someone you don’t talk to as much as you’d like to
Day 11 — A deceased person you wish you could talk to
Day 12 — The person you hate most/caused you a lot of pain
Day 13 — Someone you wish could forgive you
Day 14 — Someone you’ve drifted away from
Day 15 — The person you miss the most
Day 16 — Someone that’s not in your state/country
Day 17 — Someone from your childhood
Day 18 — The person that you wish you could be
Day 19 — Someone that pesters your mind — good or bad
Day 20 — The one that broke your heart the hardest
Day 21 — Someone you judged by their first impression
Day 22 — Someone you want to give a second chance to
Day 23 — The last person you kissed
Day 24 — The person that gave you your favorite memory
Day 25 — The person you know that is going through the worst of time
Day 26 — The last person you made a pinky promise to
Day 27 — The friendliest person you knew for only one day
Day 28 — Someone that changed your life
Day 29 — The person that you want tell everything to, but too afraid to
Day 30 — Your reflection in the mirror

Dear Alan,

It’s hard to believe so much time has passed since we last talked. I can remember times dreaming that I could see you again and that we’d laugh and joke again. In college you were the brother I never had and I like to believe that I was the same for you. We were so different and yet got along so well as roommates. We had our battles and once you crushed the life out of me to a degree I am sure you never fully knew but you always where there for me. Why did you have to be in the wrong place at the wrong time? Why did you leave all of us behind? Deep down I know it must have just been your time but what I wouldn’t have given for one last visit, one last time to cut up and have fun like we once did.

When I remember our times together, I always smile. You the über-serious one and me, well, entropy personified. Several years later, who would have guessed we’d have rubbed off on each other as much as we did. You learned to relax some and I actually started to take things more serious. We really were great influences on each other.

You’d be proud of your kids now – they’ve all done well in their own paths. When I see your youngest, I cannot help but see so much of you in him. I wish your wife would have had an easy path too. Honestly, was there any chance the other men in her life could have been as right for her? I often questioned the existence of soulmates but you two always proved to be the true model.

If is is any consolation, you never completely left us. There are pieces of you we all carry. That’s been your greatest legacy, your greatest gift to us all. I miss you old friend!

~Scott